DUPAGE COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Local websites, SEO and a CRM across DuPage County, Illinois
One provider in Glen Ellyn builds your website, your Google listing, your booking and your customer follow-up, then runs all of it for one monthly bill — from $250 a month, anywhere in DuPage County. Three towns have pages of their own below, and six working demo businesses; open one before you call.
Twenty minutes. You get a written plan and a price. Nothing starts until you say so.
The short version. One person in Glen Ellyn, working across DuPage County. Website, Google listing, email, booking and follow-up — one bill, from $250 a month. Six demo shops you can try right now. Everything in writing. (331) 291‑7400 rings a person.
What it costs here ↓Where to go next
Both prices, and they don't move between towns.
Foundation sits at $250 a month, after a build fee of $250 paid one time. That's the website on your own domain, the Google Business Profile set up properly, Google Workspace email at your address, the local search work, and one update a month.
Growth sits at $500 a month, after a build fee of $500, and adds a booking site synced to your Google Calendar and the CRM: invoicing, payments, automated texts and emails, review requests, expenses filed where the income is, monthly reports, and a sync to QuickBooks.
Pay the twelve months up front and 15 percent comes off — $2,550 and $5,100 respectively, setup billed separately, which reads as $212.50 and $425 a month. The bolt-ons are $100 a month for round-the-clock phone answering and $130 a month for automated Google review replies. Anything beyond that is priced to the job, in writing, first. The term is twelve months. If you want out early, tell us in writing: you pay the current month plus one more, and the domain, the Google profile and the customer list leave with you.
Three towns, and the differences between them are not decoration.
Glen Ellyn is a village of 28,846 that formally recognizes three separate business districts, which is a lot of variety for its size. Wheaton is the county seat at 53,970, holding the courts, a college and a downtown that stages more than 50 events a year. Lombard is 44,476 people with a tight Main Street on one side of it and a regional retail corridor doing most of the driving on the other.
Those differences decide what a website has to do. In one place the customer is already on the sidewalk and half decided. In another they're a stranger in town for a day. In the third they may never get out of the car at all.
So each town received its own ten pages, written separately, from that town's starting point. That took considerably longer than the alternative, and the alternative is the reason most local pages are worth nothing.
Nobody stays inside the town they live in.
The county covers 336 square miles and moves on its roads. Four of them carry it east and west: I-88 as the Reagan Tollway, Roosevelt Road as IL 38, Butterfield as IL 56, North Avenue as IL 64. Turn ninety degrees and it's I-355 — the Veterans Memorial Tollway — with IL 53, 59 and 83 alongside.
Read that as a customer rather than as a driver and it explains why a barber in one village cuts hair for people who sleep in another. Crossing a border here costs eight minutes, so the useful question was never which town somebody lives in. It's whose name came up when they looked.
It's also why every page gets built for one thumb and one bar of signal. A great deal of the deciding in this county happens in a parked car.
Four services up here, and the same four again inside each town.
The pages linked below explain how each part of the job works — what gets built and in which order, how the map decides who it shows and why, what a ledger holds once everything runs through it, and what becomes of a card payment between the terminal and your bank. None of those answers changes at a village boundary, so they get written once and written properly at this level.
The town versions are doing a different job. Each starts from the ground of one particular place: a business that already has customers and wants the searches it never appears in, a business working from a sign and a phone number, a village with three trading districts that behave nothing alike. Same service, different starting point, different advice.
So read whichever matches how you are thinking today. If you are still working out what any of this involves and what it costs, begin up here. If that part is settled and the question is how it plays where you actually trade, go into the town.
One owner, one bill, and nobody to introduce to anybody.
This is built for the business where whoever unlocks the door in the morning is also whoever answers reviews at eleven at night. Two bays, four chairs, one van, a room with six tables.
If your signage came down from a franchisor, somebody is already doing this for you and a second vendor would only add a meeting to your week. That's a straight answer rather than false modesty.
Everyone else needs fewer suppliers rather than better ones — a single number that gets picked up when the booking page misbehaves, and an invoice that doesn't change shape from one month to the next.
DuPage held 932,877 people at the 2020 Census, second-most of any county in the state, spread across 336 square miles with Wheaton as the county seat. Lombard is the closest of our three towns to the city and Wheaton the furthest out, with Glen Ellyn in between — which is where we work from. Between them they hold a good share of the county's owner-run businesses, and not one of those owners pictures their trading area as a county. They picture it as about a fifteen-minute drive, and everything below is built to that scale.
What we won't put in writing.
Placement in Google's local results isn't for sale. A guarantee about a position on that map is therefore a promise about somebody else's product, and we won't sign one.
What does go in writing is the schedule: what happens to the profile, the pages and the reviews each month, and a report that says so plainly, including in the months it went the wrong way.
You also won't find a growth percentage anywhere on this page, or a chart pointing upward, or a story about what somebody's revenue did. The only numbers here are prices and census figures, and we would like it to stay that obvious.
One ledger, three towns, and no charge for crossing a border.
Ours keeps the appointment, the invoice it turned into, the expense that came off it and the date somebody is due back — one record per person, whichever village they sleep in. The alternative isn't a worse system, it's four systems that don't speak to each other: a diary by the register, a card reader's history, a contact list on a phone, and whatever anyone can still remember about last March. Every part of it is registered in your name and leaves with you.
Questions people actually ask
Straight answers.
Which towns have pages of their own?
Three of them: Glen Ellyn, Wheaton and Lombard, each with six trades and four services written for that town specifically. We work with businesses elsewhere in the county as well — the build is identical and so is the price, there simply isn't a page for every village.
There's a county SEO page and a town one. Which do I read?
Both, in that order, because they are not the same article twice. The county page sets out the mechanics — relevance, distance and prominence, and why a result shifts depending on where the person searching happens to be standing. The town page takes those mechanics and applies them to one place, for a business at a particular stage of its life. If you only have ten minutes, spend them on the county one, because it changes how you read everything else.
Does the price change depending on the town?
It does not. $250 a month with a $250 build on Foundation, $500 a month with a $500 build on Growth, and 15 percent off if the year goes in up front. Nothing about a ZIP code changes an invoice.
Where are you based?
Glen Ellyn, one town east of Wheaton. We publish the village and the state and no street address. The practical part of being local is that we can stand in your shop for an hour before anybody designs anything, which is worth more than it sounds.
Start with the service, or start with the town.
Seven pages sit under this one — four services covering the county, and three town hubs carrying six trades and four services each. If testing something appeals more than reading about it, the demos are open, or (331) 291‑7400 reaches whoever would be building yours.
Which town, and what is broken?
Say where you trade and what the online side is costing you at the moment. No script, and the reply comes from the person who would do the work.
A real person reads this and gets back to you within 24 hours. If it's urgent, (331) 291‑7400 rings a phone.